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CHAPTER VI THE KING OF CLUBS
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CHAPTER VI THE KING OF CLUBS
'Truth,' I observed, laying aside the Daily Nervrraonger, 'is stranger than fiction?
The remark was not, perhaps, an original one. It appeared to incense1 my friend. Tilting2 his egg-shaped head on one side, the little man carefully flicked3 an imaginary fleck4 of dust from hiscarefully creased5 trousers, and observed: 'How profoundt What a thinker is my friend Hastingsl'
Without displaying any annoyance6 at this quite uncalled-for gibe7, I tapped the sheet I had laidaside.
'You've read this morning's paper?' 'I have. And after reading it, I folded it anew symmetrically.
I did not cast it on the floor as you have done, with your so lamentable8 absence of order andmethod.' (That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods.
He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.) 'Then you saw the account of the murder ofHenry Reedburn, the impresario9? It was that which prompted my remark. Not only is truthstranger than fiction - it is more dramatic. Think of that solid middle-class English family, theOglanders. Father and mother, son and daughter, typical of thousands of families all over thiscountry. The men of the family go to the city every day; the women look after the house. Theirlives are perfectly10 peaceful, and utterly11 monotonous
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concealment
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momentary
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taunted
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嘲讽( taunt的过去式和过去分词 ); 嘲弄; 辱骂; 奚落 | |
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peril
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